http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.36.html#subj7
Re: SET Risks
Mark Baker <markb@iosphere.net>
Tue, 2 Sep 1997 10:42:31 -0400 (EDT)
I thought RISKS readers, especially those involved in the development of
secure electronic payment systems, would be interested in a paper entitled
"Weaving a Web of Trust" by Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare.
IMO, it does a superb job of outlining the risks involved with not managing
trust issues up front in the design and implementation of software systems
being deployed on public networks.
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/local/trust.html
Mark Baker, Ottawa Ontario CANADA Java, CORBA, Agents, Beans
distobj@acm.org mbaker@nortel.ca http://www.iosphere.net/~markb
[The paper is in the World Wide Web Journal, an issue subtitled
Web Security: A Matter of Trust, Summer 1997, vol 2, no 3.
The entire issue is full of interesting contributions (including
a published version of the report of the 11 cryptographers and
computer scientists noted in RISKS-19.17,19). PGN]
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